Private Sessions
Personal Somatic Archaeology™ Sessions with Ruby are available by appointment. Please call 303-670-7300 to schedule your appointment. All sessions are held at her office in the Buffalo Building on Lookout Mountain Road in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado (see the Contact Page for directions). Appointments are 90 minutes long and cost $100.00. Please pay by check or cash.
Private, individual sessions are designed to address personal concerns regarding generational patterns, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. Concerns addressed in session include: Chronic pain, repetitive injury, disease processes, depression, emotional imprinting, relationship dynamics, traumatic experiences, insomnia, anxiety, sexual issues, unhealthy touch histories, anger, PTSD or any imbalance you wish to address.
Ruby works with adults, teens and children to assist them to create an empowered relationship with their body, and to unwind generational or personal patterns that prohibit a joyful, creative, prosperous life. Interpreting your body's symptoms and reconciling your past allows you to build bridges to a future bright with possibility.
Somatic therapy stands alone as a therapeutic recovery model, or it can be used to enhance other types of treatment modalities or healing methods. Free consultations are available.
Somatic Archaeology™ is a therapeutic intervention that teaches us how to excavate our body in order to unearth our history and embody our joy. Through breath work, sensation, movement, dreamwork, somatic visualization and symbolic imagery, clients learn skills to encourage independence in their healing movement. Homework is typically given to continue the process between sessions. An individual recovery strategy can be developed utilizing affirmations, self care, empowerment exercises and spiritual exploration.
For those who need support during transformative times in their lives, Somatic Archaeology™ assists with integration, stability, and change. This innovative work enables you to discover the gift within the wound. While deepening your relationship to your body and giving you practical tools for accessing inner knowledge, you can release the need for suffering and recognize joy as your teacher. By creating peaceful resolution internally, you will then have the opportunity to authenticate peace externally. Somatic Archaeology™ sets the stage for us to both personally and collectively re-invent our future.
Private Session Testimonies
Pam's Story
"I first saw Ruby in May 2007 for chronic pain, which I had felt for years. I had been to massage, chiropractors, and acupuncturists to try to elevate what seemed to be something that I would have to just live with. After the first Somatic Archaeology™ session, which was subtle, I was totally relieved from my pain! I am to this day pain-free. I was so impressed that I went back for another Somatic Archaeology™ session and although the outcome took some days, my second concern began to dissipate. I believe that Somatic Archaeology™ has had a profound effect on my journey. It is intuitive, provides a safe place, and guides me through my own healing as can only happen when true openness occurs. The connection that Ruby has access to, and the unspoken allowance of that which can take place with Somatic Archaeology™, is all that matters."
Danyel's Story
"I was very seriously abused as a child by my father. I had great success working on the trauma using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) with another therapist. We were able to get at and clean up the horrors I lived through. But we reached a point where I hit a wall and could not get at this terrible pain in my gut. I searched and searched for help. Then I found Somatic Archaeology™.
I started working with Ruby about eighteen months ago. But, time being relative and all, especially when in pain, I'd swear it has been more like 180 years. After the first couple sessions I knew I Did Not Want To Work With Her Anymore. This is why I have continued to work with her. We were getting to the grief, the terror, the pain, and the rage. It hurt like hell. I wanted to run for the hills. I still had very deeply repressed memories, and every week I wanted to quit and every week I dragged myself up the mountain to her office.
There is nothing magical about Somatic Archaeology™. It is not an easy, painless solution, and it is hard for me to put into words. I have to do the work. Ruby has helped me heal by providing guidance and insights when I feel lost; by sharing her gentle strength when I feel like I have nothing left; and by maintaining a professional objectivity that is so often lacking in the therapeutic world. She tells me what I need to hear.
It may sound like working with her is a never-ending source of hard work and pain. The opposite is true. She always greets me with a warm smile and she truly cares. Further, just because I still have work to do does not mean that the progress of the work done to date has not shown up in every part of my life. Eighteen months ago I was in so much emotional pain I was prescribed Vicoden just to take the edge off. I needed 500 mg. just to get through a day. Now, if I use 500 mg. a week it is unusual.
My health is better. All areas of my life are better just due to the somatic work we have done so far. Without Ruby's help, strength, support, and guidance through Somatic Archaeology™ I would not be very functional today. In other words, for the first time in my life, I awaken every morning thrilled to be alive."
Diane's Story
"I've spent 40 years learning to integrate and heal from a childhood traumatic event. In the last two years, through the work of Somatic Archaeology™, I have found tools to learn how to return to my body and excavate the emotions I still held. When I did this, I was able to express and create movement of those old images, sensations, thoughts, and feelings. In trauma, there is a loss of control and safety. With Somatic Archaeology™, I learned how to restore that sense of safety in my body where the trauma lives. Drawing from my own healing, I have learned to translate these tools into my work with clients as a Psychotherapist specializing in trauma, loss, and catastrophic illness. I have discovered that therapeutic somatic treatments are more holistic than limited stereotypical talk psychotherapies. Somatic Archaeology™ is vital to restoring so many lives within our culture that are frozen and disconnected by traumatic events."
